"Just a Pleasant Way to Spend an Evening"--The Softening Embrace of American Television

Smith, Anthony

Daedalus, 195-212, Win 78

Traces the development of the American television industry as a major unelective source of power, cause of changes in social behavior, and factor in the management of the economy. Suggests ways to make use of educational broadcasting and to initiate a mechanism for critical analysis of the institutional structure of television. (Author/AV)